About

With a voice that has been described as a “powerful demonstration of musical artistry wed to superb technique”, soprano Stacie Dunlop is an avid performer of contemporary opera, orchestral and chamber music. Highly involved in the creation of new music, Stacie has commissioned works from Canadian composers R. Murray Schafer, Harry Freedman, Peter-Anthony Togni, Juhan Puhm, Clark Ross, Scott Godin, Tawnie Olson and Aaron Gervais. Recent performances include a cross-Canada tour of Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, Peter Maxwell-Davies’ Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot, Scott Good’s The Hands of Orlac, music of Mexican and Canadian composers in Poland in 2016 & 2017, Balancing on the Edge in November 2016 a workshop of The Harvester/Erwartung project in January 2017 and a concert with Kelly Zimba, principal flute of the TSO, in November 2018. Future engagements include a new work by Abigail Richardson-Schulte with trumpet soloist Michael Fedyshyn and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra with Gemma New conductor in September 2019. Ms. Dunlop can be heard on the Centrediscs label in My Life in Widening Circles and Hymns of Heaven and Earth. If there were a triple threat category in the new music world, Stacie would tick all the boxes: performer, producer and commissioner. She is determined to bring new creations to life on the stage and beyond to encompass a full existence into touring and recording and is an unstoppable presence in the new music community.